The French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” Nowhere is this statement more apt than in Oman. The land of Sinbad the ...

A poetic exploration of the surprising richness of the desert’s plant life is the latest publication about the natural world by Diana Woodcock, associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth ...

(Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to ...

The third edition of the biennial Desert X AlUla show is now open in Saudi Arabia. “In the Presence of Absence” draws on what the organizers say are misconceptions of the desert as an empty space ...

For adventurous types who are short on sunscreen, Google Maps has just extended its street view deep into the Arabian Desert. The trek cuts a narrow path through the Liwa desert, 150 kilometers ...

According to information boards at the Petra visitor center, the Nabateans began to control water supplies across the 900,000 square mile expanse of the Arabian desert around 300BC – long before they ...

While parts of the Arabian Peninsula are the most inhospitable climates on Earth today, that wasn’t the case in the not-too-distant past. In fact, recent research indicates it was once a lush, green ...

Asia’s largest freshwater reserve is disappearing. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which is warming by 0.3 degrees Celsius-0.7 degrees Celsius above the global average, global heating is melting ...

DUBAI, AE / ACCESS Newswire / March 8, 2025 / Desert Under Skyland, Desert Safari Dubai, a leading travel company, introduces stunning Arabian Desert experiences. We offer high-quality desert safaris, ...